Posts by Carol Stewart
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Joe Wylie,
total awesomeness Joe.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to simon g,
He launched a personal assault with what I believed were threats of violence and created an atmosphere in which I was personally and professionally denigrated
How is this even legal?
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to "chris",
As for the hymns, I guess we could ban Beethoven
Why? He was all for universal brotherhood.
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Up Front: Oh, God, in reply to Moz,
Religious nutbaggery when I was in primary school was not optional,
It was theoretically optional during my primary school days, but my parents didn't believe in giving me special treatment so I suffered along with the rest of the class. They probably figured that without any reinforcement at home the ideas wouldn't take hold, and they were pretty much right. I was a dismally poor student of Bible studies and used to fail all the tests.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
That editorial is a trainwreck.
I might have to reinstate my subscription just to have the satisfaction of cancelling it again.
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Hard News: We can do better than this, in reply to Pete George,
Why shouldn’t I confront any level of venality and vindictiveness?
Yup, fair point Pete.
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Hard News: We can do better than this, in reply to Pete George,
No there’s not an equivalent, but there’s plenty of try hards. For instance:
It's over to you, Pete, to identify a left-leaning blogger with even a tenth of the venality and vindictiveness of WhaleOil.
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Speaker: Why you should vote, in reply to RaggedJoe,
nice infographic from the Guardian - timeline of women's right to vote.
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Speaker: Why you should vote, in reply to Bart Janssen,
In a democracy most people have two times in their life when they can influence the democracy.
I've always encouraged my lad to get involved and have his say. He's organised a couple of large letter-writing and signing campaigns on various conservation issues, and he and his mates like to claim partial credit for the abandonment of the Fiordland monorail project. Who knows if this is the case, but at least they made their voices heard and who knows, perhaps the influx of teenage indignation did have some influence on Nick Smith.
Overall I agree with you, and with the idea that we should cherish the right to vote. -
Hard News: The silence of the public square, in reply to Russell Brown,
And things just continue to get weirder. Now Jamie Whyte is recommending that NZ emulate Fiji in its approach to race relations!